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rowynI woke at 5:15AM on Sunday morning. I often wake early, go to the bathroom, and then play with my phone before I go back to sleep. This time, though, I remembered that CoffeeQuills was streaming from 5-7AM. So I brought up their stream and said hi. I waffled over whether to write or not, and decided to battle one smol monster in 4thwords, using my Surface so I didn't have to get out of bed for it.
Using my Surface in bed does not work great: my giant oval pillow makes it hard to put machine somewhere near me where I can type on it. And my glasses don't work if I have the Surface close to me and my eyes only work if I have the Surface right in front of them. I managed something that was uncomfortable but workable long enough to write 220 words of Be That Way, then closed the machine down and hopped out of the stream. I read comics for a bit before going back to sleep.
I woke again an hour or two later and got up. Telnar emailed that he'd call around noon if I wanted to chat. Between breakfast and noon, I wrote several hundred more words of Be That Way. Having started the day so early made it easier to continue. Getting started at the beginning of the day, especially with that long slow climb to 6000-ish words ahead of me, is the hardest part.
A member of my Time Princess society asked how one society event works, and because I am the Giantest Of Nerds, I wrote a mini-essay explaining it. I counted the mini-essay as part of my words for the day because it was so long. I am not posting it to my journal because it is so deep in the Time Princess weeds that it doesn't necessarily make sense to all Time Princess players. It is serious neepery.
("Neepery" means "in-depth speech about a topic of Special Interest to the speaker or participants in a conversation", from the verb form "to neep". It's from World Tree and I love this word so much. More people should know about it. It's so often relevant to my life).
I stopped writing a bit before noon so I could get dressed and go for a walk while talking to Telnar. We chatted for some time, and then the wind picked up along one long stretch of road when I was 15 or 20 minutes from going back inside. The wind noise got too annoying, so we called it a day on the phone. I'd checked out a new audiobook from Hoopla: Becky Chambers' Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. I am following the philosophy of "what books have I heard multiple people say 'oh you should read this, it's so good' and have also been so successful that they're likely to have audiobooks?"
It occurs to me now that Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives must have audiobook editions. I read the first two so long ago I only half-remember them and now there's two more full books and two half-books (I don't know what a half-book means, just that his website say there's books 2.5, 3, 3.5, and 4). And the Stormlight Archive books are ginormous so the audio books are probably 30 hours each.
*checks*
No, my bad. 45 hours.
...
Y'know I liked the first two books pretty well but 90 hours just to get current is...uh. A lot. That's like three months of daily walks, alone. Maybe a month and a half if I play them during various incidental things (cooking and whatnot) throughout the day?
For two books. o_o
Anyway, Angry Planet is 14 hours or something and I've listened to the first 90 minutes now (I listened to it during my walk today, too). Nothing much has happened in it so far. Some characters seem entertaining. I'll see if it picks up.
I wrote a bit more post-walk and then a bunch more during Coffee's stream. 4thewords counted 5,249 words for yesterday, of which 4,249 were new words for Be That Way, since I'd stayed focused on the book for most of the day. So that was pretty good. I've figured out that I can get 2500-3000 words during CoffeeQuills' stream, so If I'm not up to 3000-ish by the time the stream starts, I'm not gonna reach 6000-ish. I think I was at 2500 or so when stream started yesterday.
Coffee isn't streaming today. They don't normally stream on Monday nights (my time--Tuesday morning/early afternoon in theirs), so this is completely expected. And yet it feels weird. Because it's a day in November and November is for writing. How can Coffee not be streaming? So weird. (This is my brain being silly. It is not that weird.)
Anyway, I remembered Spirit City exists today, so I fired it up in the morning and ran the timer on "10 minutes on, 10 minutes off" for five cycles. I got about 1000 words on Be That Way by doing so. I took a little break and repeated the process, and then took a longer break. My grocery order arrived (yay I have milk for breakfast again). I had a sandwich for lunch, and then took a nap because I'd gotten up a little after 7AM on the basis that I would take a nap at some point in the day anyway. I woke around 2PM, made a Coke float, and did one more 90-minute cycle of 10 minutes on, 10 minutes off. After that one, my brain felt kind of melty. I dinked around for a bit, and decided to go out for a walk. I waited longer than is ideal for walking this time of year, because it was 4:30 and sunset is a little after 5PM now, so I only did 45-ish minutes of walking.
After dinner, I was not up for the Spirit City timer cycle. Instead, I'd fight a medium-sized monster in 4thewords and then take a break after defeating it. I got to 4000 words of Be That Way and then my brain felt melty again. Rather that stop writing, I decided to do this entry. 4thewords' counter is now at 5800 words for the day, and I'm gonna call it a night now.
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Date: 2024-11-13 04:15 am (UTC)I appreciated the essay, even if I didn't completely get the neepery involved, I have done enough gaming I had the gist of it. ^.^
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Date: 2024-11-21 03:45 pm (UTC)I am impressed that you got something out of it! I guess dress-up-game-scoring is not so alien from other game systems, after all. :D
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Date: 2024-11-21 06:05 pm (UTC)